Window-screen



(No Model.)

G. H. GOULD.

WINDOW SCREEN.

No. 887,781. Patented Aug. 14, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEORGE HOlVARD GOULD, OF VEST LEBANON, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND CHARLES KING GOULD, OF READFIELD DEPOT, MAINE.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,781, dated August 14, 1888.

Application filed Septemhcrfli, 1887. Serial No. 250,417. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it 71mg concern: frame. These clamps D are made alike, and Beit known thatI, GEORGEHOWARDGOULD, consist of a metal or, it may be, a hard wood of West Lebanon, in the county of York and plate having at one end an open slot, 6, edged State of Maine, have invented new and useful with an elastic or rubber facing, E, at its three Improvements in XVindowSereens, of which sides, and the clamp is provided at its inner 5 the following isafull, clear, and exact descripportion with a long slot, d, through which tiou. fastening screws or bolts F are passed into My invention relates to window screens, and holes f, made in the screen-frame. The elastic, has for its object to provide asimple, inexpenyielding, or rubber facing Esnugly fits the op- IO sive, and efficient screen,which may bequickly posing faces of the guidestrip G, which fills applied to or removed from a window-frame, the clamp slot d when the screen is in operaand is adapted to fit windows of different tive position, and the friction of the clamp-facwidths and heights. ings E on the guide-strips C is sufficient to The invention consists in certain novel feahold the window-screen at any place to which 1 tures of construction and combinations of it may be adjusted along the window-frame parts of the window-screen, all as hereinafter without further fastenings of any kind. described and claimed. It is obvious thatthe broad guide-strips C Reference is to be had to the accompanying C and the deep rabbets and wide tongues of the drawings, forming a part of the specification, windowscreen frame will allow the screen to 20 in which similar letters of reference indicate be readily fitted to window-frames of varying corresponding parts in all the figures. widths, and that when the screen tongues a a Figure 1 is an inside faceview of awindoware placed against the guides C C and the frame with my improved window-screen apscrews F are loosened the clamp-plates D may plied thereto and partly broken away and in he slid on the screen-frame, so as to snugly fit 25 section. Fig. 2 is a plan view with the wintheir facingsEonto the guides, whereupon the (low-frame and guide-strips in horizontal secscreens will be tightened to hold the screention on the line a a), Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan frame in position. When the screen is to be view of the frame of the screen with its fastenremoved from the window, it is only necessary ings or clamp-plates removed, and Fig. i is an to loosen the screwsFand slip the clamp-plates 30 enlarged plan view of one of the clampplates. D inward clear of the guides C, whereupon the The window screen is made with a main screen may be lifted inward from the windowframe, A, the opening of which is closed by frame. screen-cloth, 13, applied in any approved way, There is nothing in the construction and opand the frame may be strengthened and ornaeration of the clamp-plates D to prevent their mented also by applying angular metal cover use when the screen-frame has outer tongues, plates to it, so as to overlap or overlie the cora besides the inner tongues, a, or when the more of the screencloth. At each side the opposite sides of the frame are simply grooved frame A is provided with arabbet, c, leaving instead of rabbeted from the back, as will a tongue, a, of considerable width, which is be understood from the full and dotted linesat 0 adapted to lap onto the inner face oia guide the right-hand side of Fig. 3 of the drawings; strip, 0, which is broader or wider than winbut the rabbeted construction providing inside dow-screen guide-strips usually are, and is tongues, a, only is preferred, as the screen so fixed in any approved way to the windowmade may be more easily applied to and reframe NV, and may be made of metal or any moved from the window-frames. .5 other suitable material. Should the screen he too short to fill the 5 The screenframe A is held with its opposite opening in the window-frame made by fully side tongues, a a, fiat to the guide-strips G 0 raising the lower window-sash,I have provided on the window-frame by means of clamp-plates an auxiliary bottom bar or plate, G, which is D, applied one at each corner of the screenrabbeted or grooved at the ends to fitthe guides 50 frame and at the top and bottom edges of the (3, like the screen-frame A, and is preferably loo provided with dowels g, fitting holes in the screen-frame,and should the screen be too long, so that its upper bar, a would be at a higher level than the lower rail of the raised lower sash, I provide for closing the opening which then would be left between the screen-cloth and the sash-rail by means of an upper auxiliary cross bar or plate, H, which is fitted to slide upon dowel-pins h h, fixed to the screen bar a, and may be adjusted higher or lower within the screen-frame and close to thcscreencloth to safely overlap the bottom rail of the raised lower window-sash, as will readily be understood.

It is obvious that the screen-frame A may be provided with two tongues, (m at one side and an inner tongue, a, only at the other side with out departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a window-screen, of a frame provided with screen-cloth and fitted to guides on the window-frame, and clampplates fitted to the screen and provided with elastic facings having frictional contact with the guides, substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, in a window-screen, of a frame, A, provided with screen-cloth, B, and

clamp -p1a tes 1). provided with open-ended slots d,-having elastic or yielding facings E, adapted to guides on the window-frame, and provided also with slots 01, and screws or bolts F, passed through the clamp-slots (1 into the screen-frame, substantially as herein set forth.

3. The herein described window screen clamp, consisting ofa plate, D, having an openended slot, cl, provided with an elastic or yielding facing, E, and provided also with aslot, d,

adapted to receive fastenings to hold the clamp to the screen frame, substantially as herein set forth.

at. The combination, with a window-screen frame, of guides h, fitted to the top rail of the frame and projecting downward about parallel with the screen-cloth, and a bar or plate, H, fitted on the guides h and against the screencloth and made about the same thickness as the screen-frame, substantially as shown and described, whereby, should the top bar of the screen-frame be too high to fit against thelower rail of the raised window-sash, the bar H may be adjusted within the screen frame to fit against said sash-rail, as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE HOWVARD GOULD. \Vitnesses:

ROYAL MoDoNALD, CHARLES EDWIN LORD. 

